SHREVEPORT, LA —The Hurley Orchestra at Centenary College, under
the direction of Dr. Todd Gabriel, will present a concert at 8 p.m. Monday,
Oct. 11, in the Anderson Auditorium of the Hurley Music Building.

The concert will feature soprano Gale Odom performing Beethoven’s
Scene and Aria, Ah Perfido, op. 65. The work is associated with
the composer’s sojourn to Prague in 1796, which connects it with
another piece on the program, Antonin Dvorak’s Czech Suite,
op. 39, from 1879. Three of the movements from the Suite are versions
of typical Czech folk dances (Polka, Sousedska and Furiant), while the
other two (Romance and Pastorale) are specifically Czech in expression.

Another Beethoven composition opens the concert, the overture to Ruins
of Athens, op 113. The strings of the Hurley Orchestra will be featured
in an early symphony by another Viennese composer, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
, with his virtuosic three movement Symphony in C.